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   chireef said, 9 months ago

   this does ring of Ayn Rands philosophy
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   rogue53 said, 9 months ago

   Perhaps a lot of Social Security recipients will feel like panel 3 applies when it stops, after they paid in for 50 years.
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   whitecarabao said, 9 months ago

   @chireef

   Actually, like all idealists, Ayn Rand and her followers only considered the benign part of unrestrained capitalism and never considered the destructive role of greed, conspicuous consumption, or get-ahead-by-any-means.

    

   The real problem is that the economic theorists that have been been running economic policy in the U.S. and most of the West also are blind to the role of greed. I was floored by the comment of one of the leading economists when an interviewer asked “What about greed in the market?” The economist replied “Greed doesn’t enter into it. The markets are driven by business decisions, not emotions.”
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   Richard S. Russell said, 9 months ago

   Every child up to maybe age 6-7 is a completely self-centered hedonist. Gradually civilization sets in. For MOST of them.
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   Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist said, 9 months ago

   @whitecarabao

   As I’ve said repeatedly, academic economics ranks second to astrology as the most useless avenue of human endeavour.
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   Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist said, 9 months ago

   @

   “Condition a child to be kind toward others and they tend to be that the rest of their life. Allow a kid to remain in irresponsibility, or even condition a kid to be irresponsible and the end result is what you get in much of my age group.”
   
   Wow. I actually agree with something you said. Incredible.
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   Dha Dha said, 9 months ago

   hello….everyone…i miss you all
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   Pacopuddy said, 9 months ago

   @Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist

   Oh, come on!
   Astrology is at least entertaining and fills in what would otherwise be a blank column of white in my daily paper.
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   LX013 said, 9 months ago

   It’s good to end “me decade”!
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    CountAnton said, 9 months ago

    @whitecarabao

    Try looking up ‘The Trap’ by Adam Curtis. Its on Youtube, originally a BBC documentary. Its quite enlightening on how the economists took over, even if I don’t agree with all of Adam’s conclusions and assumptions.
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    CountAnton said, 9 months ago

    @Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist

    “No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe shamanism, astral projection or the Satanic Mass—if it’s mumbo jumbo you want go for the real stuff, banking, politics, social science—not that weak blavatskian crap.” ~ Hakim Bey, TAZ
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    battle of plattsburgh said, 9 months ago

    Truly “entitled”.
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    Citizen GROG! said, 9 months ago

    No, Calvin. I believe it’s already the Al Franken decade and he’s not willing to give it up.
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    38lowell said, 9 months ago

    When does the Calvin Decade start?
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    cowboybob2 said, 9 months ago

    @Richard S. Russell

    The rest become Republicans.
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